Tag Archives: Plain language and law

The submission deadline has been extended and the venue has been changed for LVI 2014 Africa: Law via the Internet Conference, being held 30 September-1 October 2014. The extended submission deadline for abstracts is 31 July 2014. The venue has … Continue reading →

MIT Legal Hackathon 2014 was held 12-16 June 2014 at MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts; in London, England; in New York, New York; and online. The event was organized by the Media Lab’s Legal Physics / Legal Science Research … Continue reading →

MIT Legal Hackathon 2014 is being held 12-16 June 2014 at MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and New York, New York, USA, and online. The event is being organized by the Media Lab’s Legal Physics / Legal Science Research … Continue reading →

[NOTE: The submission deadline for abstracts has been extended to 31 July 2014, and the venue has been changed to Cape Town, South Africa.] The call for abstracts has been posted for LVI 2014: Law via the Internet Conference, being … Continue reading →

Michael Curtotti, LL.M., LL.B. and Dr. Eric McCreath, both of Australian National University, have published A Right to Access Implies A Right to Know: An Open Online Platform for Research on the Readability of Law, Journal of Open Access to … Continue reading →

Grant Vergottini of Xcential Group has posted Transparent Legislation Should be Easy to Read, at Legix.info. Here are excerpts: Legislation is difficult to read and understand. So difficult that it largely goes unread. This is something I learned when I … Continue reading →